"If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this one sits you down, cries about it's ex girlfriend, and then starts badgering you for sex" is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while
@@SuperTiaanBro I'm a huge punk fan and i agree that many punk bands lack musicianship. Especially American punk, other than Dead Kennedys who are gods on their instruments
She ended up doing some unfavorable things that left with her self esteem diminished and his crush on her left in a state of missing the imagine of what he once thought of her and also realizing it’s better to stay away from those brash decisions she’s been fine with making. If this sounds specific, no it’s not, carry on, and move along, nothing to see here
“The twinks with twinkly guitars” 😂😂😂 loved this video, this genre has always really resonated with me. I was a typical “emo kid” in highschool and even after growing out of the angst and the weird clothes I still love the music I listened to as a kid. Something about the sad whiny lyrics and depressing chord progressions just makes my heart feel warm, somehow.
I like it because I get to correct people when they call the wrong bands emo. It's validating, and I'm "in the know" and feel very intelligent. Also one time someone referred to Cannibal Corpse as screamo. They don't like that screamo music.
in the infinite space and circling paths the freedom of the internet offers, it's wild to see someone take the exact same road down this that i have lmao
Being a former depressed kid from the Midwest (now a much less depressed grown man,) and a huge fan of emo and punk in general, midwest emo feels like music that was made *for me* somehow…. There’s no other music that feels that way.
As a current depressed kid from the Midwest, I wholeheartedly agree. I will cling to this music in all it’s cargo-short wearing, sweaty t-shirted, math-rocking glory at least until I graduate and finally get out of Ohio.
@@DKdropyou’re ruined. You can leave Ohio, but Ohio will never leave you lol I was a teenager in the late 90s and this music still takes me right back to the feelings it gave me at the time. Oddly enough, bands like capn jazz, promise ring, old Jimmy eat world, American football, mineral, knapsack, etc. I can still listen to today and not cringe like a lot of other music I was into growing up. It was its own unique thing and really had a special sound. The musicians weren’t playing flashy solos like in metal or classic rock and roll, but a lot of midwest emo is more sophisticated and tricky to play than many adjacent genres. It’s good stuff, I still like it lol
Midwest Emo is unexpectedly quite an amazing genre, there are so much great albums that I think will be hailed as the greatest ever if not for it's niche genre. So I'll be recommending some to those who wants to get into this genre: Origami Angel - Somewhere City Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - What It Takes To Move Forward The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me American Football - Lp1 Mineral - The Power Of Failing Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From The Discomfort Were Alright Weatherday - Come In Modern Baseball - Sports Old Gray - Slow Burn This is just the surface, this genre is abysmally deep.
Amazing Recommendations, I would add Crash Of Rhinos - Knots, Death Cab For A Cutie - Transatlanticism and Adjy - Idyll Opus. Three of my top midwest emo albums respectively and in my opinion, much more superior than any other midwest emo albums.
You should just quit now, these guys are the future. I hear their next video they’ll be calling out all the Black Metal and/or 3rd Wave Ska posers. xoxo
one of the coolest things to me about midwest emo is just how perfectly it captures the environment it comes from. like I live near the birthplace of the genre, and one of my best friends lives in a small European country, but we both deeply connect with the sound of the music because there’s this specific wistful melancholy that so accurately conveys the feeling of rural life and wishing for something more
8:07 this is so true for my case, it was like a chain reaction. I was a huge classic pop punk fan back as a young teen (still am now) of all the greats such as blink-182, Green Day, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte etc.. through listening to them bands I discovered the newer pop punk bands such as Neck Deep, The Story So Far, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, Knuckle Puck, Real Friends. Then them bands through their darker change in music/lyrics helped introduced me to the Midwest/math rock sound which made me discover the fantastic groups like American Football, Tiny Moving Parts, Modern Baseball, Tiger Jaw, This Town Needs Guns...
For me, I went in the opposite direction, and got into the older bands- skatepunk bands like Nofx, Lagwagon, Mxpx, and RKL (these bands would all eventually lead me into discovering 80’s hardcore). I also started researching where Green Day came from and discovered 924 Gilman Street and found out about Operation Ivy, and then discovered more ska punk bands like Sublime, Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Catch 22, and Streetlight Manifesto. Never really got into Midwest emo myself, or many of these newer bands.
I’m 33. Lived through most of this. I remember listening to the songs off of the translating the name ep on purevolume when I was a freshmen in highschool and thinking “this is it. This is the perfect music.” And I still don’t think I’m necessarily wrong. Still the most personally influential project I’ve ever heard…. But Hot Mulligan…. Well they’re everything I’ve ever wanted. Different time, different sound but if there is a band from the style that should make it, it’s them. Those boys deserve any kudos they get and more.
Bruh you said a mouthful with Pure volume. That is how all of our crappy bands got on warped tour dates. I'm a "emo" guy still. I still have my Circa Survive Juturna shirt. I still have my O.G. chiodos shirt. When they said all the "MID" they smoked I laughed because it might have been. The weed drove some of them cats insane. Had em missing dates.
35 here, my friend in highschool, Derick Sanders (of mayday parade) shower me translating the name on pure volume during science class, I'll be er forget it.
I'm from the U.P. and it's crazy seeing one of the "local bands" that got made by some dudes you knew in high school actually make it. I know 3 former members of the band, (Dylan, Brendan, and Fin) as well as Tades. I also know everyone in the band that Tades got "stolen" from. (Goodmitten was it's name). Crazy world haha
It wasn't mentioned here but there's also the known as "5th wave emo" borned around 2019 to this day, that has an overall noisier approach similar to that of noise pop or shoegaze with bands like Weatherday, Parannoul, Asian Glow, sonhos tomam conta or We Are Only Human Once.
@@curbstompe I say because I'm very sure the 5th wave as we know it nowadays starts with Weatherday's Come In but I'm aware of the very great emo stuff that came before it like Nouns' Still Bummed or Touché Amoré's Stage Four
I personally love riding the line between Midwest emo and emotional hardcore. Bands like Saetia, Joshua fit for battle, and city of caterpillar are really what come to mind when I think about emo. The best part is that the scramz scene is alive and thriving nowadays too.
3:33 The if 'a picture speaks a thousand words' part was genius.😂 im in bumfuck Wisconsin rn. Like, it either takes one to know one, or you did your research lol.
fun fact. the hotelier used to be called “the hotel year”. i remember getting facebook messages from the band wayyyy back in the day asking us to go to their shows at shitty dive bars in worcester ma. it was a different time… hahaha
I’ll never forget the time I went into a pizza shop in a punky neighborhood and me and the cashier vibed to American football for a full two minutes while my friends stared at us, hungry and confused
In the late 90s and early 2000s New Jersey was seen as the Mecca of emo/emocore because there were an insane amount of bands coming out of there. It was like Seattle during grunge. You had Saves the Day, Thursday, The Early November, Senses Fail. Then you had other east coast bands like Taking Back Sunday, Further Seems Forever, Dashboard Confessional, and The Starting Line. The east coast was a wild time for those genres. My band got tour offers frequently even though we were in 10th grade and only had a website and a middling social media presence before social media was a thing. We couldn’t even keep a drummer. The live music scene was striving back then. Even my mid-tier city was having regional bands coming through all the time. There was a local show with 4 or 5 bands at least every month. Sometimes there were all day festivals with unsigned punk/emo/hardcore bands. Some of them went on to get signed. It was an awesome time to be a teenager and play an instrument.
Yeah, Emo/emocore was huge in NJ, well at least were I group up. I wasn't really into it but I did really like Thursday. Though it was still sort of niche but that probably varied from county/town. Hell i'm pretty sure Thursday started off in New Brunswick which was like a 10 min drive from where I lived and used to go there to party with my buddies studying at rutgers.
"If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this one sits you down, cries about it's ex girlfriend, then starts badgering you for sex" is probably the best descriptor of the genre as a whole that I’ve ever heard
It's so weird because for the first time in my life I can genuinely say I know someone in a semi famous band, and a couple members that were in it formerly. Hot Mulligan. If you watch interviews with them you might hear about how Tades got "stolen" from a different local punk band. This band was called Goodmitten and I know basically everyone in that band haha. Dylan "Dolan" Bowie who does guitar and vocals on the first EP "Honest & Cunning" is a good friend of mine I've known for a long time. There was another friend of mine named Brendan who played drums for Goodmitten as well as them for a short period. I've also been at bonfires/parties in high school with Tades and Fin. Shit even when you open the CD case for that EP there's a list of "special thanks" people and I know a couple of them too, lmao.
it’s fr so weird to either know people who are in semi famous or famous bands or know someone who knows people in those bands. i personally don’t know anyone but my mom lived with the bass player for guns n’ roses, duff, when she was younger because at the time she dated his best friend eddie. she more just lived at his house and took care of it and his dogs than lived with him but they used to be good friends. she also knew elliott smith really well when she lived in portland
It's pretty much true in every genre with a large enough following. Music fans are as snobbish as they come. Especially the one that starts with "K"...
Any genre seen as “alternative” is filled with insecure losers who use their “alternative” music taste to create a narcissistic cover for their insecurity and anxiety aka they are insufferable losers, this is coming from an insufferable emo fan.
The sitting power posing as you stare into my soul is a divine experience accentuated and elevated to godlike status by the barrage of historic information regarding midwest emos. ろしくお願いします
@@ryanfraley7113 i didnt say they couldnt but the influence of polyphia is fairly public. you can also sonically trace influences if you pay enough attention.
YOOOOOO!!! i saw y’all at the garden’s show at the masq last october! had to do a double take when this popped up on my recommended. impeccable content, edits, humor and dialogue, keep up the great work guys
i haven't felt anything in years, but those pasty thunderthighs + you staring into the camera while your bro talks = my heart beated edit - lugubriously? are you kidding me right now?
Oh God, I forgot about the pop punk lable.... Most of the time I had all the "emo music" thrown into a folder titled "Alternative" because at the time that's what it was. They didn't really have a name for it and even the "pop punk" label wasn't a catch-all term for the genre.
Great video! American Football didn't really get much play or recognition until they were rediscovered later. The "overly complex wank n whine" slot was filled by bands like Joan of Arc and Don Caballero at the time. They were awful too.
Don cab are an instrumental band for one and American Don is a masterpiece. The problem with “emo” is no one with an opinion about it has any idea what they’re talking about.
While I appreciate Midwest emo It definitely has its flaws (it’s fans). I was introduced to the genre by somebody I knew in high school who I thought was a pretty cool dude but the one time I hung out with him and another friend of mine (that’s still a friend of mine) he turned out to be kind of a dick, and now he lives in this rundown, shitty house thats used as an emo venue, which is basically lived in by a bunch of guys that are exactly like him. The way he liked EMO was kind of like how I pretended to like grunge in my freshman year of high school to get kudos with some people because they were all grunge fans and in a band and I was really desperate to make friends (and be in a band). Also I feel like Mom Jeans is a little overrated, considering half of their lyrics, feel like something I would’ve written in my composition book my sophomore year of high school.
Mom Jeans is stoner midwest emo. It's about chilling in life and the shit that happens to you, it doesn't have to be exquisitely deep or anything. It's just fucking fun. Have fun.
To give a glimpse of what kinda fan I am, I'm from the midwest and I just like the music. Never had an emo phase (fashion) and neither does many midwest emo bands, actually, I don't dwell on a crush who rejected me, TikTok sucks, and the midwest emo guitar licks are awesome.
Also, I got war flashbacks to sitting in my highschool art class, in 2006. (southern Illinois) My older sister handing me a burned CD of some local emo band that she knew the singer from. It was usually "screamo" and growing up, that's what I thought associated midwest emo as.
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@@yepwhatever1142 Yes
Are the short shorts for sale too?
Your “ shoegaze deftones.. let’s make out” shirt hits like a Valentine I wrote.
Guys help what's the song that plays at around 6:48
"If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this one sits you down, cries about it's ex girlfriend, and then starts badgering you for sex" is one of the funniest things I've heard in a while
hey
@@EnergeticSpark63 no no, he got a point
i am the most midwest emo person that you can find and i obviously love american football, but the truth is the truth, that joke was funny
@@galacticplayer6175 hey
Unironically, this sounds like one of those midwest emo song name that is excessively long for no reason...and I would totally listen to it.
I find Punk fans accusing Emo musicians of not being able to play their instruments ironic.
@ChristiaanWatchesMovies he said punk fans not punk musicians
They said emo fans
@@SuperTiaanBro I'm a huge punk fan and i agree that many punk bands lack musicianship. Especially American punk, other than Dead Kennedys who are gods on their instruments
@@SuperTiaanBrothe way you have to say "for punk," means that even you know Punk music isn't that great with their instruments
@@chrishansen8119 got em
I have never before felt so berated yet understood at the same time.
You’ve just simultaneously explained Midwest emo
I hated this but I couldn’t stop watching because it’s so accurate
Fr just @ me next time
Saaaaaame :D
same lmaooo
Bro got his thighs out in the lords light as if it isn’t gonna completely distract us from the video
9 minutes passed and i couldnt hear a word over that thunder
Lmao!
Amen
I KNOW! Right?! THANKS TO THAT D*CK MOVE I’M NOW GAY! (I mean I was gay before but still)
Fr
Midwest emo bands having so many sports. related names is so ironic because not a single listener look like they even watch it
Yea, too bad powerlifting isnt considered a sport.
Thats because midwest emo is a genre that appreciates irony
hey man :( "please be nice"
they are too busy [REDACTED] women
nice reference btw
What happened to his crush that turned 14 and went to high school? The world will never know.
she was umm uhhh uhmmm umm
i got them ---> dated ---> broke up ---> 5.23.13 11:08PMEST
She ended up doing some unfavorable things that left with her self esteem diminished and his crush on her left in a state of missing the imagine of what he once thought of her and also realizing it’s better to stay away from those brash decisions she’s been fine with making. If this sounds specific, no it’s not, carry on, and move along, nothing to see here
@@vampvhs I guess the problem with midwest emo is that it appeals to a lot of NiceGuysTM... charming.
When she turned 18 he wasn’t interested anymore 😂
Midwest emo is the best kind of emo to come out of the midwest
I think you are onto something
Undebatable
Definitely top 5
“The twinks with twinkly guitars” 😂😂😂 loved this video, this genre has always really resonated with me. I was a typical “emo kid” in highschool and even after growing out of the angst and the weird clothes I still love the music I listened to as a kid. Something about the sad whiny lyrics and depressing chord progressions just makes my heart feel warm, somehow.
the most accurate description of this genre lol
I like it because I get to correct people when they call the wrong bands emo. It's validating, and I'm "in the know" and feel very intelligent. Also one time someone referred to Cannibal Corpse as screamo. They don't like that screamo music.
Have you ever listen to murphy radio? They make chill midwest emo
I just wanted to listen to japanese math-rock with english lyrics and now I have depression
Eastern emo music of Rock an Hip-Hop is a major mood
people who shit on the Chinese language can suck my shoe
in the infinite space and circling paths the freedom of the internet offers, it's wild to see someone take the exact same road down this that i have lmao
the pipeline from toe to american football needs to be studied
holy shit same lmaooo
Not a lot of people really understand comedic timing like you guys do. Props for the research, editing, and comedy. Keep it up my dudes.
Yes exactly! The nail the timing and don't even crack a smile. I would be dying.
Get your disgusting posi vibes out of here you trendy poser. Make emo dead again, long live the american goth.
Not a lot of people really understand comedic timing like you guys do. Props for the research, editing, and comedy. Keep it up my dudes.
Grark brargorg
Exactly. Take it from the guy with the speedwagon pfp, he knows a thing or two about comedy
Being a former depressed kid from the Midwest (now a much less depressed grown man,) and a huge fan of emo and punk in general, midwest emo feels like music that was made *for me* somehow…. There’s no other music that feels that way.
As a grown depressed man who's still stupid like a kid I agree, I really love this music!
As a current depressed kid from the Midwest, I wholeheartedly agree. I will cling to this music in all it’s cargo-short wearing, sweaty t-shirted, math-rocking glory at least until I graduate and finally get out of Ohio.
@@DKdropare you going to move to LA and start listening to trap?
@@DKdropyou’re ruined. You can leave Ohio, but Ohio will never leave you lol
I was a teenager in the late 90s and this music still takes me right back to the feelings it gave me at the time. Oddly enough, bands like capn jazz, promise ring, old Jimmy eat world, American football, mineral, knapsack, etc. I can still listen to today and not cringe like a lot of other music I was into growing up. It was its own unique thing and really had a special sound. The musicians weren’t playing flashy solos like in metal or classic rock and roll, but a lot of midwest emo is more sophisticated and tricky to play than many adjacent genres. It’s good stuff, I still like it lol
i'm so grateful you two found each other + that i have since found you two. the editing + one liners are such a treat.
This uh. Sounds like the title of a Midwest emo song
"6ix9ine" and "emo" in the same sentence is WILD💀
GUMMO
Midwest Emo is unexpectedly quite an amazing genre, there are so much great albums that I think will be hailed as the greatest ever if not for it's niche genre. So I'll be recommending some to those who wants to get into this genre:
Origami Angel - Somewhere City
Rainer Maria - Look Now Look Again
Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate) - What It Takes To Move Forward
The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
Tigers Jaw - Tigers Jaw
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me
American Football - Lp1
Mineral - The Power Of Failing
Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
Everyone Everywhere - Everyone Everywhere
The Brave Little Abacus - Just Got Back From The Discomfort Were Alright
Weatherday - Come In
Modern Baseball - Sports
Old Gray - Slow Burn
This is just the surface, this genre is abysmally deep.
Amazing Recommendations, I would add Crash Of Rhinos - Knots, Death Cab For A Cutie - Transatlanticism and Adjy - Idyll Opus. Three of my top midwest emo albums respectively and in my opinion, much more superior than any other midwest emo albums.
camping in alaska please be nice no competition
Thank you :D
Also adding to this list
Hey Mercedes
Saves the Day
Blueland
Thursday
Faraquet
adding a few bands from my scene:
ben quad
sunfo
goodridge
cliffdiver
king pink
me too, thanks
I've never clicked on a video so fast based on the title alone!!
You should just quit now, these guys are the future. I hear their next video they’ll be calling out all the Black Metal and/or 3rd Wave Ska posers. xoxo
i saw Rites of Spring mentioned + instantly thought of you Finn!
@@ReubenAotearoa. In all seriousness, I agree. Their content is so good that it makes me want to quit.
one of the coolest things to me about midwest emo is just how perfectly it captures the environment it comes from. like I live near the birthplace of the genre, and one of my best friends lives in a small European country, but we both deeply connect with the sound of the music because there’s this specific wistful melancholy that so accurately conveys the feeling of rural life and wishing for something more
8:07 this is so true for my case, it was like a chain reaction. I was a huge classic pop punk fan back as a young teen (still am now) of all the greats such as blink-182, Green Day, New Found Glory, Good Charlotte etc.. through listening to them bands I discovered the newer pop punk bands such as Neck Deep, The Story So Far, The Wonder Years, Man Overboard, Knuckle Puck, Real Friends. Then them bands through their darker change in music/lyrics helped introduced me to the Midwest/math rock sound which made me discover the fantastic groups like American Football, Tiny Moving Parts, Modern Baseball, Tiger Jaw, This Town Needs Guns...
I had the same thing happen to me except it was the complete opposite lol.
YEP SAME LMFAO
For me, I went in the opposite direction, and got into the older bands- skatepunk bands like Nofx, Lagwagon, Mxpx, and RKL (these bands would all eventually lead me into discovering 80’s hardcore). I also started researching where Green Day came from and discovered 924 Gilman Street and found out about Operation Ivy, and then discovered more ska punk bands like Sublime, Bosstones, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Catch 22, and Streetlight Manifesto. Never really got into Midwest emo myself, or many of these newer bands.
Are you me?
exactly how it happened with me!
I’m 33. Lived through most of this. I remember listening to the songs off of the translating the name ep on purevolume when I was a freshmen in highschool and thinking “this is it. This is the perfect music.” And I still don’t think I’m necessarily wrong. Still the most personally influential project I’ve ever heard…. But Hot Mulligan…. Well they’re everything I’ve ever wanted. Different time, different sound but if there is a band from the style that should make it, it’s them. Those boys deserve any kudos they get and more.
Bruh you said a mouthful with Pure volume. That is how all of our crappy bands got on warped tour dates. I'm a "emo" guy still. I still have my Circa Survive Juturna shirt. I still have my O.G. chiodos shirt. When they said all the "MID" they smoked I laughed because it might have been. The weed drove some of them cats insane. Had em missing dates.
35 here, my friend in highschool, Derick Sanders (of mayday parade) shower me translating the name on pure volume during science class, I'll be er forget it.
This genre is what made up most of my limewire downloads lol
I'm from the U.P. and it's crazy seeing one of the "local bands" that got made by some dudes you knew in high school actually make it. I know 3 former members of the band, (Dylan, Brendan, and Fin) as well as Tades. I also know everyone in the band that Tades got "stolen" from. (Goodmitten was it's name). Crazy world haha
the random cuts to midwestern activities such as kwik trip got me dying
It wasn't mentioned here but there's also the known as "5th wave emo" borned around 2019 to this day, that has an overall noisier approach similar to that of noise pop or shoegaze with bands like Weatherday, Parannoul, Asian Glow, sonhos tomam conta or We Are Only Human Once.
Born* not "borned" .
@@Dlc1312🎉🎉🎉🎉 YOU ARE VERY INTELLIGENT 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 we are so happy we have people like you in the world!
2017 imo. somhos tomam conta fucking rules
@@curbstompe I say because I'm very sure the 5th wave as we know it nowadays starts with Weatherday's Come In but I'm aware of the very great emo stuff that came before it like Nouns' Still Bummed or Touché Amoré's Stage Four
That entire scene is really something else, with a special shoutout to Della Zyr's "Vitamins & Apprehension". God, that album hits hard!
I personally love riding the line between Midwest emo and emotional hardcore. Bands like Saetia, Joshua fit for battle, and city of caterpillar are really what come to mind when I think about emo.
The best part is that the scramz scene is alive and thriving nowadays too.
I always knew it'd make a resurgence. I'd throw You and I up there too. One of my personal favs from my teen years.
Finally some real meaningful content 🙏
as a prominent midwest emo enjoyer i was offended at the thumbnail, but decided to watch anyway, now i am subscribed. Good job, guys
This Finn McKenty/Punk Rock MBA recommendation riiipszz. Love your work, boys.
I'll always love midwest emo. It was a huge part of my life and I'll never forget it. Good content dudes, subbed!
3:33 The if 'a picture speaks a thousand words' part was genius.😂 im in bumfuck Wisconsin rn. Like, it either takes one to know one, or you did your research lol.
fun fact. the hotelier used to be called “the hotel year”. i remember getting facebook messages from the band wayyyy back in the day asking us to go to their shows at shitty dive bars in worcester ma.
it was a different time… hahaha
Found them years after they came out. Really enjoy The Hotelier. Coming from a dude that grew up with Get up Kids tho
Your dive, into seemingly bizarre and strange origins of genres, is fantastic. Thanks guys
I’ll never forget the time I went into a pizza shop in a punky neighborhood and me and the cashier vibed to American football for a full two minutes while my friends stared at us, hungry and confused
A punky neighborhood.
Tf is a punky neighborhood?
Those don’t exist, punks aren’t renowned for being home owners lol
@@krusher181Think they just mean ghetto neighborhoods or smth
It’s those little moments
In the late 90s and early 2000s New Jersey was seen as the Mecca of emo/emocore because there were an insane amount of bands coming out of there. It was like Seattle during grunge. You had Saves the Day, Thursday, The Early November, Senses Fail. Then you had other east coast bands like Taking Back Sunday, Further Seems Forever, Dashboard Confessional, and The Starting Line. The east coast was a wild time for those genres. My band got tour offers frequently even though we were in 10th grade and only had a website and a middling social media presence before social media was a thing. We couldn’t even keep a drummer.
The live music scene was striving back then. Even my mid-tier city was having regional bands coming through all the time. There was a local show with 4 or 5 bands at least every month. Sometimes there were all day festivals with unsigned punk/emo/hardcore bands. Some of them went on to get signed. It was an awesome time to be a teenager and play an instrument.
Yeah, Emo/emocore was huge in NJ, well at least were I group up. I wasn't really into it but I did really like Thursday. Though it was still sort of niche but that probably varied from county/town. Hell i'm pretty sure Thursday started off in New Brunswick which was like a 10 min drive from where I lived and used to go there to party with my buddies studying at rutgers.
Covet is probably my favorite hybrid. It's a lot of math rock, but is closer to what the genre used to be
These guys just slaughtered me as a Midwest emo fan and I’m here for it 😭😭😭
3:00 - funnily enough, Mineral are not a band from Midwest despite being an absolute essential of Midwest emo
right, and they are goated
Well-known emo rap artist 6ix9ine
Thank you for actually giving a history on emo as a whole genre
4:06 mans hit the lugubriously
This video is hilarious, well edited and written
this is actually a pretty good analysis video, keep up the good work guys 💯
nice pfp
car seat headrest fan spotted
You guys go so deep and truly know the music!
Sure
Eh
The Culver’s parking lot reference is perfect
"If a picture speaks a thousand words, then this one sits you down, cries about it's ex girlfriend, then starts badgering you for sex" is probably the best descriptor of the genre as a whole that I’ve ever heard
It's so weird because for the first time in my life I can genuinely say I know someone in a semi famous band, and a couple members that were in it formerly. Hot Mulligan. If you watch interviews with them you might hear about how Tades got "stolen" from a different local punk band. This band was called Goodmitten and I know basically everyone in that band haha.
Dylan "Dolan" Bowie who does guitar and vocals on the first EP "Honest & Cunning" is a good friend of mine I've known for a long time. There was another friend of mine named Brendan who played drums for Goodmitten as well as them for a short period. I've also been at bonfires/parties in high school with Tades and Fin. Shit even when you open the CD case for that EP there's a list of "special thanks" people and I know a couple of them too, lmao.
damn... Cool!
Dang, I was the only one you didn't know when we were UP based lol
it’s fr so weird to either know people who are in semi famous or famous bands or know someone who knows people in those bands. i personally don’t know anyone but my mom lived with the bass player for guns n’ roses, duff, when she was younger because at the time she dated his best friend eddie. she more just lived at his house and took care of it and his dogs than lived with him but they used to be good friends. she also knew elliott smith really well when she lived in portland
@@bretta3919 sorry Brett 😂 I'm from esky so I probably saw you around at some point
Dude I LOVE TITLE FIGHT I’m so sad they broke up. Can you do a video related to them because I just love them!!!!
8:25 "midwest emo will never die, unless the midwest gets nuked...or something" prophetic
This is a God send. The genre isn't horrible but the fans are insufferable.
It's pretty much true in every genre with a large enough following. Music fans are as snobbish as they come.
Especially the one that starts with "K"...
Any genre seen as “alternative” is filled with insecure losers who use their “alternative” music taste to create a narcissistic cover for their insecurity and anxiety aka they are insufferable losers, this is coming from an insufferable emo fan.
You have some pretty nice "music" on your page too man. I bet fans of... whatever that is are totally wholesome
@@Tikky503 The fact that you wrote that sarcastically kinda proves his point my dude, assuming you're a midwest emo fan.
@@robertlustmord1636 No it doesnt. Hes lobbing boulders in a glass house, people deserve to be called out for that.
Its been a while since I heard such a well written script that isn’t part of a video essay.
this channel will blow up imo, I'm not even their target audience and these guys are good
As a massive fan of emo and scene music, this was hilarious. You guys earned a sub.
First time I’ve heard the word “lugubriously” lmaoo, great vid guys
I grew up in the NYxHC scene. The Midwest Emo kids were my Mortal enemy back in the day. That and Crunkcore kids a few years later
This is the best tone to convey the the aura of this subject, incredibly well done 😎
So glad to see the channel gaining the traction it deserves!
This is great. Algernon Cadwallader just came back again after a 10 year hiatus, seeing them in a couple months.
This man is intimidating me with his leg situation
As a fellow Midwest emoton I can agree on the description of us listeners
The sitting power posing as you stare into my soul is a divine experience accentuated and elevated to godlike status by the barrage of historic information regarding midwest emos.
ろしくお願いします
everyone always forgets about The Get up Kids
jank, panuccis pizza and charmer are some of my favourite midwest emo bands
midwest pen pals too
Camping in Alaska is my favorite
@@Mark-hu7iu W 🤝
merchant ships is good too
@@Mark-hu7iu W
Such a great video that really helped me understand mid west emo and get some good new bands!
5:02 - Bro just made me audibly chuckle alone in my dark office where no one loves me with that MGK reference 😂
Love the videos, I appreciate you guys are here doing this
NEO PUNK FM da 🐐 no 🧢
Fr bussin no cap
Sick hot mulligan in the background with *Equip Sunglasses*
Holy shit, American Football was totally an influence on Polyphia, wasn’t it. 😮
no. polyphia is much more shred/metal influenced, not every guitar tapping song is related. an influence on ichika, yes. polyphia, no.
@@jwlsiee Bands in one genre can influence bands in other genres.
@@ryanfraley7113 i didnt say they couldnt but the influence of polyphia is fairly public. you can also sonically trace influences if you pay enough attention.
@@jwlsiee polyphia is fucking mediocre asf
God i hate Polyphia.
“The mid that they were smoking?” - yes
dude that last song really touched my heart
seen y’all at the ken or lone show i forgot which one, but ever since then y’all becoming one or my favorite channels ngl
my b i’ve seen the one w long hair
My boi showin Dem Thighs🦵🏼🦵🏼
i went to so many midwest emo concerts in the 2010s id have to say the best i saw was Dads, so talented and passionate
YOOOOOO!!! i saw y’all at the garden’s show at the masq last october! had to do a double take when this popped up on my recommended. impeccable content, edits, humor and dialogue, keep up the great work guys
I sincerely hope the majority of the people who watched this laughed as much as I did lol this is so well made!
Having grown up in Champaign-Urbana I can tell you that University of Illinois students mention the "American Football House" like urban legend.
i haven't felt anything in years, but those pasty thunderthighs + you staring into the camera while your bro talks = my heart beated
edit - lugubriously? are you kidding me right now?
i really envy the connection that you two have you guys are just like nana and nana from the hit anime series nana
The Skyline and Hell Is Real billboard really added to the authenticity. 10/10 ✌️
Midwest Pen Pals is my dream blunt rotation.
brave little abacus mention AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Love the brave little abacus and algernon cadwallader shoutouts
shoegaze deftones
donnie darko
taxi driver marlboro lights
bojack horseman
draingang kickflip
shrooms yeah i play guitar
let’s makeout
Oh God, I forgot about the pop punk lable.... Most of the time I had all the "emo music" thrown into a folder titled "Alternative" because at the time that's what it was. They didn't really have a name for it and even the "pop punk" label wasn't a catch-all term for the genre.
1:32 thats how i react to 90% of things given the title "___core"
bro listed 69 as an emo rapper
Lifelong midwest emo fan from 90's WI. You guys did a great job.
Great video! American Football didn't really get much play or recognition until they were rediscovered later. The "overly complex wank n whine" slot was filled by bands like Joan of Arc and Don Caballero at the time. They were awful too.
If Don Cab is awful then I have bad taste, which is fine.
Hahaha
@@Aster_RiskEvery genre is shitty to music fans depending on who you ask.
Why are they awful ?
Don cab are an instrumental band for one and American Don is a masterpiece. The problem with “emo” is no one with an opinion about it has any idea what they’re talking about.
Remo Drive's debut album is a classic
I was there for the transition. Emo as a descriptor for a band went from cool to embarrassing in a couple of years.
This video is pure gold. I’m deaaaaad 😂😂😂. You gained a life subscriber
6ix9ine was my favorite emo act too
Oh man Dance Dance on DDR takes me right back. Great vid guys
6ix9ine is my favorite emo rapper
wonderfully made, thanks for putting this out there
Do a video on breakcore pls :))
Prince Daddy, Hot Mulligan, and Mom Jeans are so good rn. Hope they keep going
While I appreciate Midwest emo It definitely has its flaws (it’s fans). I was introduced to the genre by somebody I knew in high school who I thought was a pretty cool dude but the one time I hung out with him and another friend of mine (that’s still a friend of mine) he turned out to be kind of a dick, and now he lives in this rundown, shitty house thats used as an emo venue, which is basically lived in by a bunch of guys that are exactly like him. The way he liked EMO was kind of like how I pretended to like grunge in my freshman year of high school to get kudos with some people because they were all grunge fans and in a band and I was really desperate to make friends (and be in a band). Also I feel like Mom Jeans is a little overrated, considering half of their lyrics, feel like something I would’ve written in my composition book my sophomore year of high school.
Mom Jeans is stoner midwest emo. It's about chilling in life and the shit that happens to you, it doesn't have to be exquisitely deep or anything. It's just fucking fun. Have fun.
This was awesome and made me giggle several times, subscribed!
To give a glimpse of what kinda fan I am, I'm from the midwest and I just like the music. Never had an emo phase (fashion) and neither does many midwest emo bands, actually, I don't dwell on a crush who rejected me, TikTok sucks, and the midwest emo guitar licks are awesome.
I remember the day sleepy dog made that viral video and it all came surging back
Also, I got war flashbacks to sitting in my highschool art class, in 2006. (southern Illinois) My older sister handing me a burned CD of some local emo band that she knew the singer from. It was usually "screamo" and growing up, that's what I thought associated midwest emo as.
Nice video.
Free throw’s “Those Days Are Gone” was the best Midwest emo album of the 2010s in my opinion.